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Why are EINK displays so expensive? Why hasn't anyone made

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Why are EINK displays so expensive?
Why hasn't anyone made a cheap affordable open source ereader?
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>>60402772

Idk 100 seems pretty cheap to me
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>>60402772
>$100
>expensive

it's fucking 1440x1080, get a job
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Patents
That and production simply isn't very high. E-reader demand is low since all the people that want one pretty much already have one.
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what is this?
xiaomi makes e readers now???
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>>60402772
that's not real is it?
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>>60402970
>>60403002
Real price is $250
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>>60402772
because it's a niece product
there's nowhere near the same amount of demand for e ink devices as normal lcds
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>>60402772
I bought brand new e-ink Trekstor Pyrus for ~20eur 2 years ago
It's a meh reader but it werks
I've read that they broke e-ink pattent and went into some legal shit for it.
It werks better with pdf than kindle and open both .mobi and .epub
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>open source
Kek
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>>60403871
My niece does not have one so that's untrue.
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>shipping an outdated OS in 2017
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>>60405275
>Caring about the OS on an ereader
>the OS is inherently is perfectly fine without any major issue any reader would care about
May be you should listen to your mom and kill yourself
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>>60402772
Copyright protection, the patent is too expensive
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Dude can you stop making these threads... Holy fucking shit. You post this shit on /csg/ also.
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>>60402772
yuck, that looks so disgusting.

>chink
yuck

>that psuedo-camera

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